[Mr. Jeeves]

St. Petersburg was Stalingrad during WW II.

St. Petersburg was Leningrad during WW II.

I hope the US is ready to fight the same kind of war against our new enemies - they are at least as cruel as the Japanese were, and just as convinced of their own inherent superiority.

[andy_card]

Stalingrad is now Volgograd, btw. The 900 day siege of Leningrad killed as many as 800,000 civilians. With folks "living" on daily rations of 125 grams of bread, rats, horses, dogs, etc. were the first things people turned to. When they ran out, cannibalism became prevalent. Surrendering to the Nazis was just not an option. So please spare everyone any moral judgements. People do what they have to do in order to survive.